Word: kelvinator
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expectant tingling raced over thousands of shiny pates last year when Glasgow's Dr. John Kelvin, 53, reported that two patients had grown hair on their bald heads after taking tablets he had prescribed for cramps (TIME, Sept. 27, 1954)- Possible explanation for the growth: the drug (Roniacol) improved circulation of the scalp by its vasodilating (artery-widening) action. No one was more excited than a Manhattan businessman with a full head of hair: Lynn Robert Akers, 35, president of 21 Akers Hair and Scalp Clinics scattered throughout the U.S. He promptly flew to Glasgow, offered Dr. Kelvin...
Piliculturist Kelvin thought it over and asked the British General Medical Council to remove his name from its roster. He visited the U.S. twice for consultation with Akers' staff. Last week, back in Britain and fighting to keep his council listing, Dr. Kelvin was accused by the council's disciplinary committee of "infamous conduct in a professional respect." His defense: he had been victimized by American advertising and press-agentry. His discovery, he said, had been played up in phony ads, he had been goaded by reporters, and the proposed clinic had proved "a mirage...
Moved by his tale, the disciplinary committee put Kelvin on probation for two years. In Manhattan, meanwhile, Entrepreneur Akers blithely brushed off Kelvin's charges, called him "a little Scottish country doctor who was scared to death in this country...
...afternoon now-a solid overcast blew in from the ocean and completely covered the mountains. The minute that happened, I took and went up the mountain." "There He Goes." Meanwhile, intelligence of Captain Wilkins' plight flashed back to naval headquarters at Wonsan Harbor, and Navy Lieut, (j.g.) John Kelvin Koelsch, a 27-year-old helicopter pilot from Hudson, N.Y., volunteered to try a rescue. It was the sort of mission Koelsch liked: he had voluntarily passed up rotation home after a long tour of combat duty because he felt that his rescue work was urgently needed. In the gathering...
Billy Graham wound up his six-week crusade in Glasgow last week, and the city he had picked as "the most sinful in Great Britain" was leavened by 16,236 "decisions for Christ" (pledges that may lead to conversion). More than 670,000 Glaswegians came to hear him in Kelvin Hall, and for the last nine days his voice was piped to some 700 churches, schoolhouses and town halls. Among these remote listeners, 13,422 more made decisions. Said an Irish newspaper: "Billy Graham has taken Ireland by storm and he hasn't even set foot in the country...